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Associate Professor and Digital Media Arts Program Director

Born and raised in Poland, Przemyslaw J. Moskal moved to the U.S. in 1990. In 2003 he graduated with Master of Professional Studies degree from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and began his career as a new media artist and consultant for a variety of non-profit and commercial projects. In 2011 he earned his Ph.D. in Film Art from The Cinematography and Television Production Department at The Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lódź, Poland under the supervision of Prof. Stanisław Szymański.

Dr. Moskal received grants from New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for his project Virtual and Real: K-Dron and Light. In 2004 he participated in New New Yorkers Festival in Warsaw, Poland during which he presented his interactive art works at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in an exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and co-organized with the Warsaw Electronic Festival.

In 2004, Dr. Moskal was invited by an award winning design studio, Local Projects, to design and program interactive 3D component for The ChronoScope, an interactive installation presented at AXA Gallery in Times Square as part of an exhibition titled: At The Crossroads of Desire: A Times Square Centennial. In August 2005 The ChronoScope received Honorable Mention Award from I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review in interactive category.

In 2012 Dr. Moskal’s interactive project titled Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds was presented in an exhibition as part of the ChoP Festival, Polish Experimental Music in Shenzhen, China. The event was financially supported by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland), Art and Technology Foundation (Poland), and MooKa Spaces (China).

Dr. Moskal is on the board of directors of the Buffalo Game Space, a non-profit organization dedicated to development of a thriving game industry in Western New York.

From 2005-08 Dr. Moskal was an Adjunct Professor at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania at the Department of Media Communication and Technology.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor and director of the Digital Media Arts Program at Canisius College (http://www.canisius.edu/dma) where he leads the Game Design concentration. Dr. Moskal teaches courses in interaction design, animation and game design for consoles and mobile devices. His research focuses on Interactive Art, Interaction Design and Serious Games.